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J. F. TAPLEY, or SPRINGFIELD,MAssAcHusETTs.v Leners' 1mm No. 87,804, ma arq/rch 16,' 1869.

PHOTOGRPHIC ALBUM ne samenle mama u m um Latem Patent ma making pm of the m To all whom it lma/y coment:

Be it known that I, J. ETAPLEY, of Springfield,

in the county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and improved'Photograph- Album; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and use.

' Figure 1, in the accompanying drawings, represents the album complete.

Figure 2, a leaf from the album thrown open, to show the manner of folding.

Figure 3, a sectional view, showing the manner of fastening the leaves together tomake the album, and the manner of inserting the cards, with the position of vthe card or picture in the leaf'.

Figure 4 shows a leaf folded. After cutting the paper to the proper form, as shown in g. 2, I fold the flaps C and B inward, then the half of the leaf F over on to them, sticking the edge which covers the flap B, down to it, 'with glue,.paste, mucilage, or any suitable preparation, leaving the space between F and O open, for the purpose of insertingthe cards. When the leaf is completed, ithas the appearance shown ,in fig. 4.

After preparing the leaves in this way, I join them together with paste or glue, or any suitable material, by one edge, in suitable numbers to form the album, takin gcare to put a narrow piece of pasteboard or paper of about the thickness of two photograph-cards, (see H H, fig. 3,) between each leaf, so thatwhen-the leaves are lled with cards, the back may be of equal thickness with the rest of the book.

The manner of inserting the cards, and their posi'- tion in the leaf, are clearly shown in iig. 3. In one viewv the card D is shown entering. the leaf A A, and the other, thecard D in properposition in the leaf A A. The use of the ilap, or fold C, is also shown.

To keep the pictures from falling out of the leaf, I slip them up above the edge of the flap, or fold O, and 'let them fall in back of it, which secures them against all danger of falling out, as it is obvious that they cannot be removed without slipping them upand over the edge of the fold again.

E E represent the covers of the album.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj The combination of the two sides F and G of the leaf A with the flap C, to form a photograph-album leaf, substantially in the manner and for the purpose as herein described.

- J. F. TAPLEY. Witnesses: l.

MrLroN BRADLEY, FRANK E. OOOLEY. 

